JMU Geography

We're very happy to share the second issue of JMU Geography's Geogazine!

Geogazine: Volume 2, Edition 1 (2022/2023) -- JMU Geography Student Magazine With this magazine, we want to contribute to maintaining and growing a feeling of community within the Geography program at James Madison University. Together, let’s appreciate the successes of our fellow geographers, and celebrate the achievements of the program as a whole.

JMU Geography celebrated Earth Day and their 10th year helping students at Keister Elementary! They planted vegetable seeds and played games to help elementary students identify garden pollinators and other helpful garden insects.

JMU's new Edible Forest Garden (EFG) offers unique and innovative learning opportunities while enhancing awareness of sustainable food production and whole food nutrition. It will expand pollinator habitats, restore marginal soils, improve localized nutrient cycling, enhance biodiversity, and provide local produce to the campus and community.
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JMU’s edible food forest offers unique and innovative learning opportunities JMU Edible Food Forest Garden (EFG) is a step toward improving biodiversity and thinking about local food production.

Why should you attend the CISE Career Fair? Hear what students and organizations have to say. https://bit.ly/jmu-cise-career-fair

The JMU CISE Career Fair The College of Integrated Science and Engineering (CISE) career fair is an in-person networking opportunity for students to meet potential employers. The fai...

Look who is the news again! Professor Carole Nash discusses how archaeologists are becoming activists and advocates for preserving historically important archaeological sites and artifacts threatened by climate change. https://oceans.nautil.us/feature/743/race-against-time

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While we didn't quite reach our goal for , we would like to thank each of you for donating toward the new Triangle Meadow. If you'd still like to donate, the link will be available until later this evening.
Once again, many thanks for supporting our current and future students, their research, and experiential learning!

Triangle Meadow Living Laboratory for Student Learning Help James Madison University raise $5,000 for the project: Triangle Meadow Living Laboratory for Student Learning. Your gift will make a difference!

Currently, there are ten raised garden beds on the East Campus Hillside that are used as part of the new food forest as well as used for ISAT and GS classes. We’d like to modify four of the raised beds to fit with the new Triangle Meadow. The new beds will be shorter, higher, and spread further apart to increase accessibility and accommodate students with disabilities. Please help us reach our goal of 5k on . Donate here: https://dukesfunder.jmu.edu/project/29230

In the new GS course, Global Biodiversity, more than half of all class time from August to October is spent on the East Campus Hillside Meadow. Students learn to identify butterfly species and describe their habitats. Students apply these skills outside of class when collecting data for a semester-long, group assessment of the biodiversity of butterflies.

Did you know the East Campus Hillside Meadow is just over 10 years old and we've had over 3000 students using it for classes and research?! We're feeling a bit nostalgic today and thought we'd share some old photos. We'd love to know if you took classes on the Hillside!

Did you know that JMU Geography students participate in service-learning events? From April - October 2021, JMUGS students helped Keister elementary students plant, grow, and harvest over 300 potatoes! 200 were provided to the Keister Elementary kitchen and students took the rest home!
School garden experiences provide hands-on collaborative opportunities for JMU and public school students to learn about how ecosystems work, how to grow food, and how to care for a living classroom.